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Conquest of Warangal
The Conquest of Warangal (देवगिरि और वरंगल की विजय) was the Delhi Sultanate's two-stage campaign against the Kakatiya kingdom, completed in 1323 under Ulugh Khan.
Conquest of Wolaita
The Conquest of Wolaita was the 1894 campaign by which Emperor Menilek II of Ethiopia destroyed the independent Wolaitta kingdom in southern Ethiopia, ending centuries of independence.
Conquest of Wu by Jin
The Conquest of Wu by Jin (晋灭吴之战) was the 280 campaign in which the Jin dynasty destroyed Eastern Wu, taking Jianye and receiving Emperor Sun Hao's surrender.
Conquests of Afonso de Albuquerque
The Conquests of Afonso de Albuquerque (अफोंसो दी अल्बुकर्की की विजयें) were Portuguese campaigns of 1509 to 1515 led by the governor of Portuguese India that seized Goa and subjected Hormuz.
Conquests of Anantavarman Chodaganga
The conquests of Anantavarman Chodaganga (अनन्तवर्मन् चोडगङ्ग) were the wars of the Eastern Ganga king against the Somavamsis of Utkala and Kulottunga I's Chola empire.
Conquests of Ankhtifi
The Conquests of Ankhtifi were the campaigns of Ankhtifi, a nomarch of Hierakonpolis during Egypt's First Intermediate Period, recorded in his tomb inscription at Mo'alla.
Conquests of Fan Shiman
The conquests of Fan Shiman (Fan Shih-man) were early third-century military expansions by Funan, a lower Mekong kingdom, whose general-turned-king attacked more than ten kingdoms by sea.
Conquests of Ipiq-Adad II
The conquests of Ipiq-Adad II were the campaigns by which Eshnunna expanded into a major power of the land of Akkad in the early Old Babylonian period.
Conquests of Qutayba ibn Muslim
The Conquests of Qutayba ibn Muslim were Umayyad campaigns of 705 to 715, led by Khurasan's governor Qutayba ibn Muslim, that brought Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khwarazm under Arab rule.
Conquests of Shihab-ud-Din of Kashmir
The conquests of Shihab-ud-Din of Kashmir (شہاب الدین شاہ میری) were the campaigns by which the Shah Mir sultan extended Kashmiri rule over Ladakh, Baltistan, and Gilgit.
Conquistador
A conquistador, Spanish for "conqueror," was a Spanish or Portuguese adventurer or warrior who led expeditions of conquest in the Americas and Caribbean, including Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro.
Conquistador company of Francisco Pizarro
The Conquistador company of Francisco Pizarro (Compañía de Francisco Pizarro) was a Spanish enterprise formed in Panama by Pizarro, Almagro, and Hernando de Luque to conquer Peru.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is a Canadian-born British peer and financier who built Hollinger into a newspaper empire before his 2007 fraud conviction.
Conrad Cable
Conrad Cable is an American Democratic politician and first-generation vegetable farmer from Union Parish, Louisiana, running in 2026 to unseat House Speaker Mike Johnson in the state's 4th district.
Conrad Heyer
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 – February 19, 1856), Maine farmer and Revolutionary War veteran of the 25th Continental Regiment, photographed in 1852; credited as earliest-born American photographed, though the Delaware crossing claim is unsupported.
Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton was an American hotelier who founded the Hilton hotel chain in 1919 with a single Texas hotel and built it into a global chain.
Conrad Hilton Jr.
Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton Jr. (1926-1969), American socialite, hotel heir, and Hilton international division manager; oldest son of founder Conrad Hilton and first husband of Elizabeth Taylor.
Conrad III of Germany
Conrad III (1093–1152), first Hohenstaufen king of the Romans, elected irregularly at Koblenz 1138, fought the Welfs, led the Second Crusade, never crowned emperor, succeeded by Frederick Barbarossa.
Conrad of Montferrat
Conrad of Montferrat was an Italian nobleman who saved Tyre from Saladin in 1187 and, days after being chosen king of Jerusalem, was murdered at Tyre in 1192.
Conrad Phillip Kottak
Conrad Phillip Kottak is an American sociocultural anthropologist at the University of Michigan known for fieldwork in Brazil and Madagascar and widely used anthropology textbooks.
Conrad Sangma
Conrad Kongkal Sangma, Meghalaya chief minister since 6 March 2018 and National People's Party president since 2016; son of P. A. Sangma, Wharton and Imperial College educated, re-elected in 2023 with NPP winning 26 seats.
Consanguinity
Consanguinity (close-kin marriage, second cousins or closer): about 10.4% of the global population; first-cousin unions carry an inbreeding coefficient of 1/16 and roughly double congenital disorder risk, with practice concentrated in MENA and South Asia.
Conscience
Conscience: the inward-looking moral capacity through which people become aware of moral principles, feel motivated to act on them, and judge themselves; grounds conscientious objection in law and medicine.
Conscientious objector
Conscientious objector: a person refusing military service or bearing arms on moral, ethical, or religious grounds. Covers sincerity tests, US and international law (Bayatyan 2011), alternative service standards, and history from 1916 Britain to South Korea and Ukraine.
Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness: Big Five personality trait of being organized, responsible, and hardworking; six facets (industriousness, orderliness, self-discipline, and more); strongest Big Five predictor of job and academic performance.
Conscious Content Media, Inc.
Conscious Content Media, Inc., doing business as Learn with Homer and Begin Learning, is a New York education technology company known for the HOMER learn-to-read app, founded in 2014.
Conscription
Conscription is compulsory enlistment into a state's armed forces, also called the draft or mandatory military service. Fewer than 30 countries enforce whole cohorts; ten EU states conscript; the UK ended national service in 1960 and the US draft in 1973.
Conscription Crisis of 1917
Conscription Crisis of 1917 (Crise de la conscription de 1917): Canadian political crisis when Borden's Military Service Act (29 August 1917) imposed conscription on men 20 to 45, dividing French and English Canada, dominating the December 1917 election, and culminating in the deadly 1918 Quebec Easter riots.
Conscription in Australia
Conscription in Australia: compulsory military service under four schemes, 1911–1972 (Universal Service Scheme, WWII militia, 1951 and 1964 National Service Acts), two defeated 1916–17 referendums, Vietnam birthday ballot, abolished 1972 but legally suspended only.
Conscription in Eritrea
Conscription in Eritrea: universal national service under Proclamation 82/1995, legally 18 months but indefinite in practice since 1998, driving mass emigration and UN slavery findings.